Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-01-08

hANh UP ~ GONi Va IN GlGh ttlih
THE DYING COLLEGE STUDENT
until the words flashed from his pale
fingers, and the star seemed TO pour
its light from his white lips as KirkC
White wrote these immortal words:
'NNhcn marshaled on the mighty plain,
The glittcring hosts bcstud the sky,
One star alone Of all the train
Can fix the sinners wandering eye.
| Harkl bark! to God the chorus breaks,
From every host, from every gem,
But one alone the Saviour speaks,
ie the Star OF Bethlehem,
Once on the raging seas | rode,
The storm was loud, the night was dark,
And rudely blew the wind
That tossed my laundering bark;
Deep horror then my vitals frnzc,
Death.struck, ! ceased the tide to stem;
When suddenly a star arose,
1t was the Star Of Bethlehem"
Notice also in this scene, that other
worlds seemed 10 honor our Lord and
Master, Bright star of the night,
wheel on in thine orbit! NO" said
the star, Il must come nearer, and
must bend, and ! must watch and see
what you do with my Jesus" Another
world that night Joined our world in
worship. That star made a bow OF
obeisence. | sometimes hear people
talk of Christ's dominion a. though il
were to be merely IL few thousand
| miles Of the worlds circumference;
| but ! believe the millions and the bill
lions and quadrillions Of worlds are
inhabited-if not by such creatures a.
| we are, still such creatures as God de
signed TO make, and that all these
worlds are n part of Christ's dominion.
Isaac Newton, and Kcpler, and Her
schel only went on Columbus voyage
to find these continents of our kings
domain. | think all worlds were
loyal but this. The great organ of the
universe, its pedals and its pipes and
its keys, are all II great harmony,
save ono injured pedal, save one broken
stop the vox humane of the human
race, the disloyal world.
Now YOU know that however grand
the instrument may be, if there be one
key out of order,
1T Polls IL HARMONY.
And Christ must mend this KEY. He
must restore tins broken stop. You
know with what bleeding hand, and
with what pierced side, and with what
crushed foot, He did the work. But
the world shall be attuned, and al
worlds will be yet accordant. Isle of
Wight, larger in comparison with the
British empire than our island of a
world rs compared with Christ's vast
domain. If not, why that celestial cs-
cort? If not, why that sentinel with
blazing badge above the c~aravansarv?
If not, why that midnight Waterman in
the balcony of heavenP Astronomy
surrendered that night TO Christ. This
planet for Christ. The solar system
for Christ. Worlds ablaze and worlds
burnt out-all worlds for Christ.
But this scene also impresses me
with the fact that the wise men of the
East came to Christ. They were not
fools, they were not imbeciles. The
record distinctly says that the wise men
came to Christ. We say they were the
magi, or they were the a%lchemists, OF
they were the astrologists, and we say
it with dep~reciating a~ccentuation.
magnificent men of the century. They
were the naturalists and the scientists.
THEY KNEW l. THAT WAS KNOWN.
You must remember that astrology was
the mother of astronomy, and that
alchemy was the mother of chemistry,
and because children are brighter than
the mother yea do not despise the
mother.
1t was the lifelong business of these
a~strologers to study the stars Twenty
two hundred and fifty years before
Christ was born the wise men knew
the procession of the equinOXcs. and
they had calculated the orbit aud the
return of the comets. Professor Smith
declares that he thinks they knew the
distance of the earth from the sun. We
find in the book OF Job that the men Of
-oiden time did not suppose the world
was Hat, as some have said, but that
he knew, and the men of his time
knew, the world vas globular. The
pyramids were built for astrological
and astronomical study.
They were wise men that came from
the east, and tradition says the three
wisest camc-Caspar, u young man;
Balthazar. a man in midlife; and Mel.
choir. an o~ctogcnarian. The three
wisest men of all the century. They
came to the manager. So it has al
ways been-the wisest men come to
Christ, TIE hrainiest men come to the
maneer. Who was the greatest me-
taphysician this country has ever pro-
ducedp Jonathan Edwards, the Chris
tian. Who vas the greatest astrono-
tner of the worldp Herschel, the Chris
tian. Who was the greatest poet ever
produced? John Milton, the Chris,
tian. Who was the wisest writer on
law? Blackstone; the Christian. Why
is it that every college and university
in the land has a chapel? They must
have a place for the wise men to wor
ship.
Know also in this scene that it was
A WINTER MONTH